Welcome to The Breakfast Club! AP’s Today in History for May 17th Brown vs. Board of Education ends separate but equal; Watergate hearings begin; NYSE is born; First Kentucky Derby. Breakfast Tune Sixteen Tons Something to think about, Breakfast News & Blogs below Updated Patriot Act Finally Legalizes 80% Of Current FBI Operations The …
Category: History
May 10 2020
The Breakfast Club (shock doctrine)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! AP’s Today in History for May 10th A golden spike completes America’s first transcontinental railroad; Nazis burn books in Germany; Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland; Nelson Mandela takes office in S. Africa; U2’s frontman Bono born. Breakfast Tune Shock The Monkey – Peter Gabriel Banjo Cover Something to think about, …
May 05 2020
Cinco de Mayo: They Won The Battle But Lost The War
This article was adapted from the original that was published on May 5, 2011. It is a brief history of the origins of the Cinco de Mayo holiday which is not Mexico’s Independence Day. On this day in 1862, the Mexican Army defeated the French forces at the Battle of Puebla Certain that French victory …
May 03 2020
The Breakfast Club (Banjo and Didgeridoo)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! AP’s Today in History for May 3rd Philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli born; The U.S. Supreme Court rules racial covenants in real estate are unenforceable; Joe DiMaggio makes his baseball debut; Singers Pete Seeger and James Brown born. Breakfast Tune Banjo and Didgeridoo Live! ‘I Feel Good’ a James Brown cover Something …
May 02 2020
Beltane: Fire and Folklore
Sadly, this year the Beltane festivals are cancelled but, virus or no virus, the spirit of the holiday lives in the warming of the earth by the sun of May. This article was first published May 2, 2015. You call it May Day, we Pagans cal it Beltane. It may be a day for workers …
Apr 26 2020
The Breakfast Club (San Luis Obispo, California, hello.)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! AP’s Today in History for April 26th The Chernobyl nuclear accident; John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln’s assassin, killed; Guernica bombed in the Spanish Civil War; Vermont enacts same-sex civil unions; TV star Lucille Ball dies. Breakfast Tune Come On Eileen – Dexys Midnight Runners – Banjo Cover …
Apr 19 2020
The Breakfast Club (Cereal)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! AP’s Today in History for April 19th Oklahoma City bombing; Battle of Lexington and Concord; Pope Benedict XVI elected; Branch Davidian siege near Waco, TX ends. Breakfast Tune “Lied, Lied, Lied”, an original by the WaCo Ramblers Something to think about, Breakfast News & Blogs below WALL STREET TITANS …
Apr 12 2020
The Breakfast Club (4 More Potatoes!)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! AP’s Today in History for April 12 President Franklin Roosevelt dies; The American Civil War begins with the attack on Ft. Sumter; Yuri Gagarin is the first man to fly in space; Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off on its first mission; Late night TV host David Letterman born. Breakfast Tune …
Apr 05 2020
The Breakfast Club (Legitimate Rage of Americans Quarantined)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! AP’s Today in History for April 5th Bomb strikes a West Berlin disco; Gen. Douglas MacArthur and billionaire Howard Hughes die; Educator Booker T. Washington born; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar sets an NBA record; Katie Couric to become CBS anchor. Breakfast Tune Quarantined With You – Andy Eversole Something to think about, …
Mar 29 2020
The Breakfast Club (house arrest)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:30am (ET) to …
Mar 25 2020
Two Tragic Fires That Sparked Major Changes
Today we mark the anniversary of two tragic fires that occurred in New York City. In 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire claimed 146 lives. On the same date 79 years later in the Bronx borough of New York City, the Happy Land fire killed 87 people, the most deadly fire in the city since …
Mar 22 2020
The Breakfast Club (electoral alienation)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:30am (ET) to …